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Kanos posted:You get a literally immortal elf warlord(immortal insofar as him dying in battle doesn't actually kill him), wizards in SotHR make the already extremely powerful Dark Omen ones look downright weak, and by the end of the game you get enough artillery pieces to quite literally form a gunline. I remember my favorite strategy for one of the final missions against something like four dozen skaven regiments being "bring 3 cannons, a helblaster, and two wizards, level entire battlefield". Ceridan the walking tar pit. He was great for holding off something for a minute or two. Usually while the Amber Wizard unloaded a million birds/spears. If you're going to play SOTHR it's probably (100% yes) worth googling the magic item locations. You'll thank yourself.
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Riso posted:Let's see. That's still two squads and a large unit, actually. Not even enough for a lowest points army.
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May 5, 2015 21:00
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Q-sixtysix posted:Space Marine was ok for a little while, and the multiplayer was also fun for a bit Dont forget the classic oldies, Final Liberation and Dark Omen (both owned)
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May 5, 2015 21:01
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 warning, incoming art dumpFor all the newbies who are being introduced to Warhammer Fantasy with this game, here's some art of the units of the four factions so you get a better idea of what they're about : Vampire Cunts aka 2Spooky4Me  aka Monster Mash             Warriors of Chaos aka grimdark heavy metal spike and skull appreciation station aka winners of warhammer END TIMES          Orcs, aka Orcs (and goblins)            Empire Humans, aka the good guys, but not really aka Medieval Europeans with wizards             (Sigmar, possibly the only human survivor of END TIMES) a wizzardDwarves, aka angry old men who live in the ground      
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May 5, 2015 21:10
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As awesome as that is, please timg that poo poo.
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May 5, 2015 21:14
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Zzulu posted:
How did he cut off that orc's head with a warhammer? 
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May 5, 2015 22:50
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GRIMDARK, that's how.
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May 5, 2015 22:51
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This man is cooler than Stannis.
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May 5, 2015 22:54
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Wafflecopper posted:How did he cut off that orc's head with a warhammer? In Tolkien, golf was invented when someone warhammered off a goblin's head into a hole, if I remember right.
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May 5, 2015 22:58
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Wafflecopper posted:How did he cut off that orc's head with a warhammer? WARHAMMER
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May 5, 2015 23:22
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He also carries a sword its probably specifically for cutting heads off enemies. There is a lot of cutting heads off enemies in this setting. Skulls are big with all factions
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May 6, 2015 00:01
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Wafflecopper posted:How did he cut off that orc's head with a warhammer? I mean, cut is the wrong word for it, but you can remove a head with a warhammer. 
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May 6, 2015 00:14
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Orv posted:I mean, cut is the wrong word for it, but you can remove a head with a warhammer. Not without obliterating the head you can't. 
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May 6, 2015 01:25
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Wafflecopper posted:Not without obliterating the head you can't. You could obliterate the body, leaving the head as all that remains.
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May 6, 2015 01:35
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Wafflecopper posted:Not without obliterating the head you can't. Hey if it doesn't exist, it's removed right? 
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May 6, 2015 01:37
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I've always wondered where chaos dudes get enough metal and crafters to give every loving soldier and his dog a full plate suit when the empire can only scrape together a handful of them for their elite knights and officers(and even those suits they can only get by trading with dwarves).
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May 6, 2015 03:22
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AtillatheBum posted:I've always wondered where chaos dudes get enough metal and crafters to give every loving soldier and his dog a full plate suit when the empire can only scrape together a handful of them for their elite knights and officers(and even those suits they can only get by trading with dwarves). Same explanation why entire civilizations can get genocided every couple of years and be ready to go next year: It's fuckin' awesome.
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May 6, 2015 03:32
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AtillatheBum posted:I've always wondered where chaos dudes get enough metal and crafters to give every loving soldier and his dog a full plate suit when the empire can only scrape together a handful of them for their elite knights and officers(and even those suits they can only get by trading with dwarves). From the Chaos Gods. After all, they're metal.
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May 6, 2015 03:37
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AtillatheBum posted:I've always wondered where chaos dudes get enough metal and crafters to give every loving soldier and his dog a full plate suit when the empire can only scrape together a handful of them for their elite knights and officers(and even those suits they can only get by trading with dwarves). The Gods give it to them straight up, if I remember. Chaos Armor is actually a gift from their dark gods that's given to a warrior when he (or she) hits the point where they become heavy metal enough to leave behind their entire prior identity and be remade as a vessel for the Gods' will. E, f, b.
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May 6, 2015 03:38
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Night10194 posted:The Gods give it to them straight up, if I remember. Chaos Armor is actually a gift from their dark gods that's given to a warrior when he (or she) hits the point where they become heavy metal enough to leave behind their entire prior identity and be remade as a vessel for the Gods' will. Yup, a lot of Chaos dudes are literally welded into their armor and cannot take it off even if they want to. Sometimes the armor is even fused with their flesh and bones.
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May 6, 2015 03:43
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Every Chaos Warrior slowly forgets everything about their old life and the Gods' favorite thing to do is send them to murder their old friends and family to cut their ties even further. Chaos in Fantasy is actually pretty metal when it isn't the writer's pet like the End Times. When it's just badass giant vikings in imposing, silent armor showing up to gently caress poo poo up for their gods it can work.
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May 6, 2015 03:47
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Night10194 posted:When it's just badass giant vikings in imposing, silent armor showing up to gently caress poo poo up for their gods it can work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enBMSH5ghc I'm sure I'm gonna link that a trillion times before this game comes out, but 1:20 or so is great for that. They just show up, gently caress poo poo up, barely make a sound and are imposing as poo poo.
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May 6, 2015 03:54
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Orv posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enBMSH5ghc Yes. Why are they here? Who loving cares! They're here. And now poo poo is ruined. 'Can you kill a Chaos Warrior by yourself' is basically the gold standard of 'Are you a badass' for Fantasy.
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May 6, 2015 03:56
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God why wasn't Mark of Chaos good. 
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May 6, 2015 04:00
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Orv posted:God why wasn't Mark of Chaos good. Bad design choices were made.
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May 6, 2015 04:06
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Zzulu posted:Empire Humans, aka the good guys, but not really aka Medieval Europeans with wizards I'm going to be a nitpicky rear end in a top hat and point out that it's not Medieval Europe with wizards, it's early modern Holy Roman Empire with wizards. 
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May 6, 2015 04:10
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my dad posted:I'm going to be a nitpicky rear end in a top hat and point out that it's not Medieval Europe with wizards, it's early modern Holy Roman Empire with wizards. Though only the Bright Wizards (fire wizards) ever seem to show up in video games.
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May 6, 2015 04:18
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Neruz posted:Though only the Bright Wizards (fire wizards) ever seem to show up in video games. Like 4 kinds of wizards were in Mark of Chaos. And another 4 kinds of elf wizard.
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May 6, 2015 04:32
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wiegieman posted:Like 4 kinds of wizards were in Mark of Chaos. And another 4 kinds of elf wizard. Pretty sure SotHR had an amber wizard and... a celestial one? Maybe the second was in Dark Omen, it's been a while.
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my dad posted:I'm going to be a nitpicky rear end in a top hat and point out that it's not Medieval Europe with wizards, it's early modern Holy Roman Empire with wizards. This only manages to make it more fun than medieval Europe with its ridiculous electoral system and primitive firearms.
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May 6, 2015 05:05
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Now that I think of it, I don't think there's even the need to add "with wizards" to HRE. Several important generals of the 30 Years War were believed to be immortal wizards by their contemporaries. Like Pappenheim, the dude who had his skull split in two by an axe and kept trucking along being a (very good) general for 12 more years more like it's no big deal. Took a direct hit by a cannonball to mortally wound him (not kill him on the spot, mind you, he lived a day more after that) Or good old Wallenstein, who was thought to be conjuring unspeakable Czech magic to make supplies for his army out of thin air. (basically, dude had a high-functioning form of autism, and his attention to "pointless" details lead him to develop the most efficient taxation and logistics system of that age, which shared the load of funding the war in such a way that nobody was overburdened, and the money and supplies efficiently reached his troops, keeping them in peak fighting form. Though he did some hilarious stuff, like screaming at his generals that he wants flags exactly in the center of their formations.) I want Shot&Pike: Total War. 
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May 6, 2015 05:24
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AtillatheBum posted:I've always wondered where chaos dudes get enough metal and crafters to give every loving soldier and his dog a full plate suit when the empire can only scrape together a handful of them for their elite knights and officers(and even those suits they can only get by trading with dwarves).
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Zaodai posted:You could obliterate the body, leaving the head as all that remains. Orv posted:Hey if it doesn't exist, it's removed right? But the head and the body are still intact in that pic, just separate.
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May 6, 2015 06:35
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Wafflecopper posted:But the head and the body are still intact in that pic, just separate. Oh I didn't see him holding it. Uh, Warhammer.
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May 6, 2015 06:36
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Wafflecopper posted:But the head and the body are still intact in that pic, just separate. They don't belong to the same orc. If that doesn't work for you, Orv posted:Uh, Warhammer.
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May 6, 2015 07:24
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I am pretty certain that knight with all the fleurs-de-lis over him is actually a Bretonnian aka not-french instead of not-german please correct your heinous mistake good sir.
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May 6, 2015 07:52
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Holy poo poo that End Times stuff. Why'd they do all that and then make this game?
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May 6, 2015 07:55
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Grondoth posted:Holy poo poo that End Times stuff. Why'd they do all that and then make this game? This game was in development before GW decided to go even stupider than usual, I think. The best news is really that CA is ignoring that crap.
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May 6, 2015 07:57
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Oh wow. I had no idea Warhammer was a completely different thing from "Warhammer 40k" and not just people shortening it. When I heard there was a Warhammer Total War game I just figured they were going to slap a new coat of paint on to Napoleon or something.
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Now I want Relic and CA to team up to make Dawn of Total Warhammer 40k. There's no way it wouldn't own.
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